Individual List Captains

Australia vs other countries Tests Individual - List of Captains

List of captains

Player	Span	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	Draw	NR	W/L	%W	%L	%NR	%
James Lillywhite (ENG)	1877-1877	2	1	1	0	0	0	1.000	50	50	0	50
Lord Harris (ENG)	1879-1884	4	2	1	0	1	0	2.000	50	25	0	66.66
A Shaw (ENG)	1881-1882	4	0	2	0	2	0	0.000	0	50	0	0
AN Hornby (ENG)	1882-1884	2	0	1	0	1	0	0.000	0	50	0	0
Hon.IFW Bligh (ENG)	1882-1883	4	2	2	0	0	0	1.000	50	50	0	50
A Shrewsbury (ENG)	1884-1887	7	5	2	0	0	0	2.500	71.42	28.57	0	71.42
AG Steel (ENG)	1886-1888	4	3	1	0	0	0	3.000	75	25	0	75
WW Read (ENG)	1888-1888	1	1	0	0	0	0	-	100	0	0	100
WG Grace (ENG)	1888-1899	13	8	3	0	2	0	2.660	61.53	23.07	0	72.72
AE Stoddart (ENG)	1893-1898	8	3	4	0	1	0	0.750	37.5	50	0	42.85
AC MacLaren (ENG)	1897-1909	22	4	11	0	7	0	0.360	18.18	50	0	26.66
HM Taberer (SA)	1902-1902	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0	0	0	-
JH Anderson (SA)	1902-1902	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
EA Halliwell (SA)	1902-1902	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
PF Warner (ENG)	1903-1904	5	3	2	0	0	0	1.500	60	40	0	60
Hon.FS Jackson (ENG)	1905-1905	5	2	0	0	3	0	-	40	0	0	100
FL Fane (ENG)	1907-1908	3	1	2	0	0	0	0.500	33.33	66.66	0	33.33
AO Jones (ENG)	1908-1908	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
PW Sherwell (SA)	1910-1911	5	1	4	0	0	0	0.250	20	80	0	20
JWHT Douglas (ENG)	1911-1921	12	4	8	0	0	0	0.500	33.33	66.66	0	33.33
F Mitchell (SA)	1912-1912	2	0	2	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
CB Fry (ENG)	1912-1912	3	1	0	0	2	0	-	33.33	0	0	100
LJ Tancred (SA)	1912-1912	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0	0	0	-
Lord Tennyson (ENG)	1921-1921	3	0	1	0	2	0	0.000	0	33.33	0	0
HW Taylor (SA)	1921-1921	3	0	1	0	2	0	0.000	0	33.33	0	0
AER Gilligan (ENG)	1924-1925	5	1	4	0	0	0	0.250	20	80	0	20
AW Carr (ENG)	1926-1926	4	0	0	0	4	0	0.000	0	0	0	-
APF Chapman (ENG)	1926-1930	9	6	1	0	2	0	6.000	66.66	11.11	0	85.71
JC White (ENG)	1929-1929	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
RES Wyatt (ENG)	1930-1934	5	1	2	0	2	0	0.500	20	40	0	33.33
GC Grant (WI)	1930-1931	5	1	4	0	0	0	0.250	20	80	0	20
HB Cameron (SA)	1931-1932	5	0	5	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
DR Jardine (ENG)	1932-1933	5	4	1	0	0	0	4.000	80	20	0	80
CF Walters (ENG)	1934-1934	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
HF Wade (SA)	1935-1936	5	0	4	0	1	0	0.000	0	80	0	0
GOB Allen (ENG)	1936-1937	5	2	3	0	0	0	0.660	40	60	0	40
WR Hammond (ENG)	1938-1947	8	1	3	0	4	0	0.330	12.5	37.5	0	25
WA Hadlee (NZ)	1946-1946	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
NWD Yardley (ENG)	1947-1948	6	0	5	0	1	0	0.000	0	83.33	0	0
L Amarnath (IND)	1947-1948	5	0	4	0	1	0	0.000	0	80	0	0
AD Nourse (SA)	1949-1950	5	0	4	0	1	0	0.000	0	80	0	0
FR Brown (ENG)	1950-1951	5	1	4	0	0	0	0.250	20	80	0	20
JDC Goddard (WI)	1951-1952	4	1	3	0	0	0	0.330	25	75	0	25
JB Stollmeyer (WI)	1952-1955	3	0	2	0	1	0	0.000	0	66.66	0	0
JE Cheetham (SA)	1952-1953	5	2	2	0	1	0	1.000	40	40	0	50
L Hutton (ENG)	1953-1955	10	4	1	0	5	0	4.000	40	10	0	80
DS Atkinson (WI)	1955-1955	3	0	2	0	1	0	0.000	0	66.66	0	0
PBH May (ENG)	1956-1961	13	3	6	0	4	0	0.500	23.07	46.15	0	33.33
AH Kardar (PAK)	1956-1956	1	1	0	0	0	0	-	100	0	0	100
PR Umrigar (IND)	1956-1956	3	0	2	0	1	0	0.000	0	66.66	0	0
DJ McGlew (SA)	1957-1957	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0	0	0	-
CB van Ryneveld (SA)	1957-1958	4	0	3	0	1	0	0.000	0	75	0	0
Fazal Mahmood (PAK)	1959-1959	2	0	1	0	1	0	0.000	0	50	0	0
Imtiaz Ahmed (PAK)	1959-1959	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
GS Ramchand (IND)	1959-1960	5	1	2	0	2	0	0.500	20	40	0	33.33
FMM Worrell (WI)	1960-1961	5	1	2	1	1	0	0.500	20	40	0	37.5
MC Cowdrey (ENG)	1961-1968	6	1	2	0	3	0	0.500	16.66	33.33	0	33.33
ER Dexter (ENG)	1962-1964	10	1	2	0	7	0	0.500	10	20	0	33.33
TL Goddard (SA)	1963-1964	5	1	1	0	3	0	1.000	20	20	0	50
MAK Pataudi (IND)	1964-1969	11	2	7	0	2	0	0.280	18.18	63.63	0	22.22
Hanif Mohammad (PAK)	1964-1964	2	0	0	0	2	0	0.000	0	0	0	-
GS Sobers (WI)	1965-1969	10	3	4	0	3	0	0.750	30	40	0	42.85
MJK Smith (ENG)	1965-1966	5	1	1	0	3	0	1.000	20	20	0	50
PL van der Merwe (SA)	1966-1967	5	3	1	0	1	0	3.000	60	20	0	75
CG Borde (IND)	1967-1967	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
TW Graveney (ENG)	1968-1968	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0	0	0	-
A Bacher (SA)	1970-1970	4	4	0	0	0	0	-	100	0	0	100
R Illingworth (ENG)	1970-1972	11	4	2	0	5	0	2.000	36.36	18.18	0	66.66
Intikhab Alam (PAK)	1972-1973	3	0	3	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
RB Kanhai (WI)	1973-1973	5	0	2	0	3	0	0.000	0	40	0	0
BE Congdon (NZ)	1973-1974	6	1	3	0	2	0	0.330	16.66	50	0	25
MH Denness (ENG)	1974-1975	6	1	4	0	1	0	0.250	16.66	66.66	0	20
JH Edrich (ENG)	1975-1975	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
AW Greig (ENG)	1975-1977	4	0	1	0	3	0	0.000	0	25	0	0
CH Lloyd (WI)	1975-1985	22	12	7	0	3	0	1.710	54.54	31.81	0	63.15
Mushtaq Mohammad (PAK)	1976-1979	5	2	2	0	1	0	1.000	40	40	0	50
GM Turner (NZ)	1977-1977	2	0	1	0	1	0	0.000	0	50	0	0
JM Brearley (ENG)	1977-1981	18	11	4	0	3	0	2.750	61.11	22.22	0	73.33
BS Bedi (IND)	1977-1978	5	2	3	0	0	0	0.660	40	60	0	40
AI Kallicharran (WI)	1978-1978	3	1	1	0	1	0	1.000	33.33	33.33	0	50
SM Gavaskar (IND)	1979-1981	9	3	1	0	5	0	3.000	33.33	11.11	0	75
DL Murray (WI)	1979-1979	1	0	0	0	1	0	0.000	0	0	0	-
Javed Miandad (PAK)	1980-1988	9	3	2	0	4	0	1.500	33.33	22.22	0	60
IT Botham (ENG)	1980-1981	3	0	1	0	2	0	0.000	0	33.33	0	0
GP Howarth (NZ)	1980-1982	5	1	2	0	2	0	0.500	20	40	0	33.33
MG Burgess (NZ)	1980-1980	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
Imran Khan (PAK)	1982-1990	8	3	2	0	3	0	1.500	37.5	25	0	60
RGD Willis (ENG)	1982-1983	5	1	2	0	2	0	0.500	20	40	0	33.33
LRD Mendis (SL)	1983-1983	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
Zaheer Abbas (PAK)	1983-1983	3	0	1	0	2	0	0.000	0	33.33	0	0
IVA Richards (WI)	1984-1991	11	5	2	0	4	0	2.500	45.45	18.18	0	71.42
DI Gower (ENG)	1985-1989	12	3	5	0	4	0	0.600	25	41.66	0	37.5
JV Coney (NZ)	1985-1986	6	3	1	0	2	0	3.000	50	16.66	0	75
N Kapil Dev (IND)	1985-1986	6	0	0	1	5	0	0.000	0	0	0	50
MW Gatting (ENG)	1986-1988	6	2	1	0	3	0	2.000	33.33	16.66	0	66.66
JJ Crowe (NZ)	1987-1987	3	0	1	0	2	0	0.000	0	33.33	0	0
RS Madugalle (SL)	1988-1988	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0
JG Wright (NZ)	1989-1990	2	1	0	0	1	0	-	50	0	0	100
A Ranatunga (SL)	1989-1995	7	0	4	0	3	0	0.000	0	57.14	0	0
AJ Lamb (ENG)	1990-1990	1	0	1	0	0	0	0.000	0	100	0	0

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Performances in matches that overlap decades are credited to the year in which they occurred - this results in some unknown data, especially in regard to bowling figures
Performances in matches that overlap years are credited to the year in which they occurred - this results in some unknown data, especially in regard to bowling figures

Records includes the following current or recent matches:

Australia vs England at Melbourne, The Ashes 4th Test, Dec 26-27, 2025 [Test # 2615]

New Zealand vs West Indies at Mount Maunganui, West Indies in New Zealand 3rd Test, Dec 18-22, 2025 [Test # 2614]

Australia vs England at Adelaide, The Ashes 3rd Test, Dec 17-21, 2025 [Test # 2613]